Direct Legal Services And Representation

Each year, SeniorLAW Center provides direct individual legal services and representation to thousands of needy senior citizens, which enable them to keep their homes, terminate family violence, rectify consumer and financial exploitation, and gain custody rights over children in their care to address their medical, educational, and care needs.

SeniorLAW Center’s model of service combines the efforts of its legal staff of attorneys and legal assistants and a panel of dedicated volunteer attorneys from the private Bar. We focus on problems in the major areas of housing, consumer protection, family law, elder abuse, financial exploitation, and advance planning. In the year 2000 alone, SeniorLAW Center provided individual legal services and representation to over 2,100 senior citizens.

SeniorLAW Center and its volunteers provides individual direct legal services in a wide range of substantive areas, focusing on the following:

Advance Personal Planning

simple wills

powers of attorney

advance health care directives

administration of small estates

Medicaid estate recovery counseling

Family Issues

custody and support for grandparents raising grandchildren & other kinship caregivers